Foreword / C. Richard Hatch --
Introduction / Sherry Ahrentzen --
Part I. Collective housing --
Overview of collective and shared housing / Karen A. Franck --
Apartments and collective life in nineteenth century New York / Elizabeth Cromley --
Early European collective habitation : from utopian ideal to reality / Norbert Schoenauer --
Communal housing in Sweden : a remedy for the stress of everyday life? / Alison Woodward --
Cohousing in Denmark / Kathryn M. McCamant, Charles R. Durrett --
The party wall as the architecture of sharing / Jill Stoner --
Part II. Housing for single-parent households --
Overview of housing for single-parent households / Sherry Ahrentzen --
Two prototypical designs for single parents : the congregate house and the new American house / Jacqueline Leavitt --
Two cases of transitional housing development in Boston / Joan Forrester Sprague --
Passage community : second-stage housing for single parents / Christine C. Cook --
Developing two women's housing cooperatives / Gerda R. Wekerle, Sylvia Novac --
Part III. Single room occupancy housing --
Overview of single room occupancy housing / Karen A. Franck --
The design of a single room with furniture for a residential hotel / Michael Mostoller --
A look at SRO hotel residents with recommendations for management and design / Mary Burki --
A single room occupancy hotel : a rediscovered housing type for single people / Karen A. Franck.
